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NPA Seeks FDA Nominee’s Position on Supplement Regulation
The Natural Products Association (NPA) submitted a letter to U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Ranking Member Patty Murray requesting the president’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clarify past comments related to the regulation of the supplement industry. Dr. Robert Califf, in a November 2010 ...
FDA Determines GE Salmon Safe
“After an exhaustive and rigorous scientific review, FDA [Food and Drug Administration] has arrived at the decision that AquAdvantage salmon is as safe to eat as any non-genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon, and also as nutritious,” the FDA report stated. The FDA scientists evaluated data submitted by the manufacturer, AquaBounty Technologies, and other peer-reviewed data, ...
NPA Welcomes FDA Process to Define “Natural”
The Natural Products Association (NPA) responded to recent steps taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to define the term “natural” on food labels. “It’s about time that natural be defined by experts and no Madison Avenue ad executives,” said Dan Fabricant, PhD, executive director and CEO of the NPA. “NPA strongly supports ...
Jarrow Formulas and Delegation Meet With FDA
Jarrow Formulas, Los Angeles, CA, sent a strongly critical letter to FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) then-Acting Director Stephen Ostroff, MD, regarding the misrepresentations about safety of probiotics for use with infants. The FDA’s Deputy Director of CFSAN then invited the company to meet with the agency. A delegation affiliated with Jarrow Formulas, Inc. (JFI), ...
Industry Responds to Oregon AG Lawsuit Against GNC
The natural products industry is responding to a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General (AG) Ellen Rosenblum alleging that supplement retailer GNC (Pittsburgh, PA) violated the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit accuses GNC of selling workout supplements containing picamilon, a prescription drug used to treat neurological conditions. Acting Deputy Director of the Dietary ...
Supplier of Tainted Weight-loss “Supplements” Gets Prison Sentence
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Cheryl Floyd, 52, Harrisburg, owner of Floyd Nutrition LLC, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo today in Harrisburg for introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and money laundering. Judge Rambo ...
Peanut Corporation of America Sentencing
In 2008-2009 a deadly outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium killed nine and resulted in many sickened. The executives of the company, Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), were criminally charged in 2014, along with production managers who knew about the salmonella contamination. Stewart Parnell, second-generation chief executive of the family-owned peanut enterprise, was sentenced to 28 years ...
FDA Announced Final Rule on Preventive Controls for Human Food
The Natural Products Association (NPA) attended an FDA briefing on September 10, 2015 for industry stakeholders discussing the FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food (Final Rule) under the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). The FDA hasn’t set a date(s) yet on when the rules will ...
Vitamin Shoppe Agrees to Stop Selling BMPEA Supplements
New Jersey-based Vitamin Shoppe Inc. has reached an agreement with Oregon and Vermont’s attorney generals on prohibiting the sale of BMPEA-containing supplements, just weeks after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded that a handful of supplement companies cease distribution of products that contain BMPEA. The retailer also pulled all products with Acacia rigidula, unless testing ...
GNC Reaches Agreement With NYAG on Supplement Testing
GNC announced that it has reached an agreement with the New York attorney general (NYAG) that affirms the company’s Herbal Plus products were in full compliance with the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements and acknowledges GNC’s full cooperation with the attorney general’s inquiries. In its response to the NYAG’s ...
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